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RefWorks. May 2014. What is RefWorks. A web-based bibliographic citation manager It allows you to collect, save and organize bibliographic citations to journal articles, books, web sites and other sources that you have found during your research
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RefWorks May 2014
What is RefWorks • A web-based bibliographic citation manager • It allows you to collect, save and organize bibliographic citations to journal articles, books, web sites and other sources that you have found during your research • You can create correctly formatted bibliographies in your preferred style of output eg. Harvard • It is available free of charge to all Unisa students, staff and faculty • Is accessible both on and off campus • To use the software, you will need to create an account.
Create a RefWorks account • Connect to RefWorks at http://www.refworks.com/refworks/ • Click on Sign up for an Individual Account • Complete all fields in the Registration form • Click on Register • Once your information has been submitted, you will have immediate access to RefWorks • You will receive a confirmation email with your username, password and group code. (Keep this email.) • If you already have an account, Login. • In case you have forgotten your login details, use the Forgot your log-in? link.
Law resources with RefWorks filters The following resources have RefWorks filters: • Library catalogue • Sabinet databases • Ebsco-host databases • ProQuest databases • Informit databases • Emerald
Collecting Citations Basic procedure to import citations into RefWorks is: • do a search on your topic using the Library Catalogue and/or the online databases, select the relevant citations and import them into RefWorks • There are various ways of importing information into RefWorks: • Most databases allow you to directly import the citations into RefWorks (Ebsco-host, Sabinet, ProQuest etc) • Library Catalogue requires that you create a text file of citations, then you will have to import that file into RefWorks using database filters. (Innovative Interfaces) • You may also manually add references to RefWorks (where references are not available electronically) • Import from websites (Google) – (a set up needed on Google Scholar under preferences)
How to import references from the catalogue: Perform a search and mark relevant records by clicking Add to Bag. Click on View Bag.
Select End-Note/RefWorks Selectthe Screen box Click Submit
How import references from Oasis The references will be displayed on the screen in this format: • %A Parker, Eric, 1946- • %D Northcliff, Suid-Afrika : Bookstorm, c2010. • %T Maak hope geld uitjoueiebesigheid / Eric Parker ; met Kurt Illetschko. • %7 1ste uitg. • %@ 9781920434021 (pbk.) • %@ 192043402X (pbk.) • %1 Small business -- South Africa. • %1 Small business -- Planning. • %1 Entrepreneurship -- South Africa. • %1 New business enterprises -- South Africa. • %A Johnson, Lesley-Caren. • %D Northcliff, South Africa : Bookstorm, 2010. • %T The ultimate South African business companion : forms, templates and checklists for everyday use / Lesley-Caren Johnson. Right click and Select all Right click and copy the references
Login http://www.refworks.com/refworks/
Select the correct filters, right click on From text to open the text box and paste the text you copied from the Catalogue
Importing references from Sabinet • Perform a search on Sabinet and select the relevant references by clicking on the green crosses which will turn to red x • The marked records will be saved in the My action list at the right bottom of the page
Write-N-Cite Cont. from RefWorks
Write-N-Cite • Write-N-Cite allows you to run an abbreviated version of RefWorks in Microsoft Word • With Write-N-Cite, you can cite references in a manuscript with the click of a button. • The utility installs a RefWorks tab in the MS Word ribbon or you can access it from the References tab in Microsoft Word
Installing Write-N-Cite • Write-N-Cite 4 for Windows is compatible with the following applications: • Microsoft Word 2007, 2010 and 2013 (local installations of 2013 only) • Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 and 8